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Dear President Peña Nieto: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to express its concern at the continued detention of an independent journalist and Mayan activist in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Pedro Celestino Canché Herrera has been imprisoned since August 30, 2014, when he was arrested by state security forces and charged with sabotage.

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He certainly looked
guilty of something, and as if he'd finally been caught. With either his
head down or with a kind of scared, dead-eyed stare, in a white jumpsuit, in
front of the four Veracruz state police officers crowded behind him. They were all
in black uniforms, with a strip of face and eyes showing through black masks, with
four matte black assault rifles menacingly at the ready to guard a slim man in
handcuffs. (Actually, had there been any gunfire, the police were so over-armed
and so close together that it's likely one of them would have been the first
victim.) Still, it all looked good for the cameras and reporters summoned to
hear about the man's arrest and the end of a most doggedly troublesome case for
state officials: the murder of Regina Martínez Pérez on April 28 last year.

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Mexico City, April 17, 2013--The national
Mexican magazine Procesoreported Tuesday that it has
learned of a plot by officials in the government of Veracruz to harm journalist
Jorge Carrasco, who has reported extensively on the murder of the magazine's correspondent
in that state. The Committee to Protect
Journalists calls on authorities to fully investigate the alleged threats and
to ensure Carrasco's safety.

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Veracruz is a beautiful, long, thin state on the Gulf coast
of Mexico where many journalists are terrified not only of the rampant
organized crime groups that kill and control, but also of the state government.
Fear that state officials will order them murdered for what they investigate or
write has forced about a dozen journalists to flee the state, claiming that
fear also puts a clamp on coverage for those who remain. Many journalists still
working in the state tell CPJ they agree.

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New
York, April 30, 2012--Authorities must immediately investigate the murder of Mexican
journalist Regina Martínez Pérez, determine the motive, and ensure the
perpetrators are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said
today.

The
body of Martínez was found in her home on Saturday evening in Xalapa, the
capital of the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, according to news reports. She had been
badly beaten around the face and ribs and had been strangled to death, news
reports said. The state attorney general, Amadeo Flores Espinoza, said in a news briefing that it
appeared her TV, cellphones, and computer had been stolen.